Anchor answers from your own notes, PDFs, slides and spreadsheets. It quotes the exact words, shows where they came from, and says plainly when your materials don't cover something, instead of making it up.
Drag PDFs, Word documents, slides, notes, pictures and spreadsheets straight into the chat. Anchor reads each one once, then answers from it every time.
What Anchor readsPictures get a written description so answers can use them, and the picture appears beside any answer that rests on one.
Every cell is kept with its row and column labels, so a question about a figure is answered from the exact cell.
Your Library is yours alone: nothing you add is shared with other users. Delete a file and it leaves every search index.
Keep your Library in sync with Google Drive, OneDrive, Notion and your course site.
See connectorsEach step quotes the words it rests on. Its Source button opens the excerpt beside your chat with those words marked, and one more click opens the file at that page, line or cell.
If a step can't be matched to your files, the answer is marked Unsure and says which check failed.
Ask something your files don't cover, and Anchor says so instead of guessing. Ask something they only half cover, and you get that half, plus a plain note about what's missing.
Pictures in your files are described so answers can use them. When an answer rests on one, Anchor shows the picture right beside it, so you can check the reading at a glance.
Questions about figures go to your spreadsheets first. The answer names the exact cell, and a click takes you to it.
Anchor runs in your phone's browser, on Android and iPhone, with nothing to install. Ask between classes; the sources come with every answer.
Open Anchor on your phoneTap the camera button and photograph each printed page. Anchor crops and straightens every photo, flags any that look blurry or empty, and reads its text.
Check what it read beside each photo and fix any word it got wrong before you save. Answers from a scanned page still show you the page.
How scanning worksThe same AI model answers in both columns. Anchor adds what it reads first, and what it checks after.
| The AI model on its own | Anchor | |
|---|---|---|
| Where answers come from | Whatever it picked up in training | Your own course files, quoted word for word |
| Sources | None you can check | Every step, with the page, slide, line or cell |
| When your files don't say | Can guess | Says “Not found in your materials” |
| Checking | None | Each step checked against your files; marked Unsure if a check fails |
| Pictures and spreadsheets | Can't see your files | Reads graphs and flowcharts; numbers from the exact cell |
| On 21 practice questions | 6 right · 1 made-up claim | 21 right · 0 made-up claims |
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PDFs, Word documents, slides, notes, pictures and spreadsheets, straight into the chat.
Plain questions, follow-ups included. Every answer shows where it came from.